{"id":55592,"date":"2020-11-13T07:39:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T12:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55592"},"modified":"2020-11-13T07:39:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T12:39:24","slug":"triple-crisis-in-the-anthropocene-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55592","title":{"rendered":"Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"superhead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/climateandcapitalism.com\/2020\/10\/24\/triple-crisis-in-the-anthropocene-ocean-part-three-the-heat-of-3-6-billion-atom-bombs\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateandcapitalism%2FpEtD+%28Climate+and+Capitalism%29\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean.<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<header>\n<p class=\"title entry-title\"><strong>Part Three: The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"byline\">\n<div class=\"post-meta\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climateandcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ocean-storm-lightning.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30801\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climateandcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ocean-storm-lightning.jpg?resize=689%2C352&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climateandcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ocean-storm-lightning.jpg?w=689&amp;ssl=1 689w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climateandcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ocean-storm-lightning.jpg?resize=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climateandcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ocean-storm-lightning.jpg?resize=150%2C77&amp;ssl=1 150w\" alt=\"\" width=\"689\" height=\"352\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p><em><strong>Continuing Ian Angus\u2019s examination of the \u2018deadly trio\u2019 of CO2-driven assaults on ocean life. Part three: ocean warming and permanent heatwaves<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>\u201cTriple Crisis\u201d has been published in three parts<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Part One:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climateandcapitalism.com\/2020\/09\/07\/ocean-triple-crisis-part-1\/\">Corrosive Seas<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Part Two:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climateandcapitalism.com\/2020\/09\/20\/triple-crisis-in-the-anthropocene-ocean-part-two-running-low-on-oxygen\/\">Running Low on Oxygen<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Part Three: The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<table border=\"4 px\" cellpadding=\"10px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\u201cThe world\u2019s oceans (especially the upper 2000 m) in 2019 were the warmest in recorded human history\u2026. The past five years are the top five warmest years in the ocean historically with modern instruments, and the past ten years are also the top ten years on record.\u201d[1]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Until the 1970s, the constant flow of energy that Earth receives from the sun was offset by heat reflected back into space, so the planet\u2019s overall energy level did not change very much over time. The amount of incoming solar energy has not changed, but rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are trapping ever more of the reflected heat, preventing it from leaving the atmosphere. Climate scientists call this Earth\u2019s Energy Imbalance.<\/p>\n<p>The excess energy is not distributed evenly through the Earth System. Although global warming is usually expressed as increased air temperatures, the ocean is actually much better at storing heat than the atmosphere \u2014 one degree of ocean warming stores over 1000 times as much heat energy as one degree of atmosphere warming \u2014 so it isn\u2019t surprising that the ocean has taken up most of the excess solar energy. Just seven percent warms the air and land and melts snow and ice \u2014 93 percent is absorbed by the ocean.[2]<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Three: The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs Continuing Ian Angus\u2019s examination of the \u2018deadly trio\u2019 of CO2-driven assaults on ocean life. Part three: ocean warming and permanent heatwaves \u201cTriple Crisis\u201d has been published in three parts Part One:\u00a0Corrosive Seas Part Two:\u00a0Running Low on Oxygen Part Three: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1208,8834,141,18784,1273,1790],"class_list":["post-55592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-anthropocene","tag-climate-and-capitalism","tag-climate-change","tag-ian-angus","tag-ocean-warming","tag-oceans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55593,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55592\/revisions\/55593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}